P2P Spam?

Sgt York writes "In a NYT article (republished in the Houston Chronicle, no subscription required) experts at CERT, F-secure, Trusecure, and the Hall of Justice (see article) think that SoBig.F is a spam scheme in the making. They say that SoBig.F is the 6th variant in an ongoing experiment with the possible goal of setting up a distributed spam network, to be rented out to the highest bidder. If that is their goal, they are well on their way. Another disturbing note in the article is that "In the case of four of the six programs, a new version was launched immediately after the self-timed expiration date of the preceding one". SoBig.F expires in two weeks. "

Comments

Re:Who is really behind this

[Christianfreak]

Would like to hear some discussion thanks!

I think the editors should be discussing the possibility of a +1 or -1 Conspiracy :)

Seriously though, there are other large companies (IBM? Sun? HP? to name a few I bet there are thousands of examples) that wouldn't dream of handing that kind of power over to MS. That and 60 some percent of the Net runs on Apache (mostly on some kind of *nix), somehow all those have to be converted to use DRM etc and I don't think that's happening soon either.

The government can't really mandate the use of a computer platform to people, I'm pretty sure that would be unconstitutional, and even if it weren't I'm sure such legislation would be tied up in lawsuits for years.

Finally even if somehow it was all mandated there are plenty of other places where it wouldn't be. I'd pack up and move, and be rid of the lusers forever! :)